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an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
surprised by the width of his power and influence in the oil business
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Recent Examples of widths
Choose from seven colors and sizes 5–12, with both standard and wide widths available.
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Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
Others, like a rotating display, have slots of different heights and widths to store a variety of items.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Nystrom researches the draft tirelessly, keeping a spreadsheet of data (ages, game stats, hand widths) on nearly two thousand players, and publicly ranks his top five hundred—nearly twice as many as will actually be drafted.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
The North Star is about thirty degrees from Dubhe, or roughly three of your fist-widths held at arm’s length.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
The sun's powerful magnetic dynamo that drives sunspot activity and contributes to unleashing powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections has been confirmed as existing 124,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) beneath the sun's visible surface — equivalent to 16 Earth widths' deep.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
The reconfiguration uses no physical barriers between the bike lane and travel lanes, and lane widths won’t meaningfully change.
—Ian Hembree, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
Thankfully, if you’re set on one silhouette in particular, the brand offers several different widths of the same style for customization.
—Noah Kaufman, Architectural Digest, 7 Mar. 2026
The book covers pocket, knee, crotch and belt loop repair techniques, taking in and expanding the waist, hemming, adjusting leg widths, transforming jeans to shorts and skirts, splicing.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 18 Feb. 2026
Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
Others, like a rotating display, have slots of different heights and widths to store a variety of items.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
Nystrom researches the draft tirelessly, keeping a spreadsheet of data (ages, game stats, hand widths) on nearly two thousand players, and publicly ranks his top five hundred—nearly twice as many as will actually be drafted.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
The North Star is about thirty degrees from Dubhe, or roughly three of your fist-widths held at arm’s length.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
The sun's powerful magnetic dynamo that drives sunspot activity and contributes to unleashing powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections has been confirmed as existing 124,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) beneath the sun's visible surface — equivalent to 16 Earth widths' deep.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
The reconfiguration uses no physical barriers between the bike lane and travel lanes, and lane widths won’t meaningfully change.
—Ian Hembree, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
Thankfully, if you’re set on one silhouette in particular, the brand offers several different widths of the same style for customization.
—Noah Kaufman, Architectural Digest, 7 Mar. 2026
The book covers pocket, knee, crotch and belt loop repair techniques, taking in and expanding the waist, hemming, adjusting leg widths, transforming jeans to shorts and skirts, splicing.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 18 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widths
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Permissions are increasingly derived at runtime from natural-language intent in ways that OAuth scopes were never designed to govern.—
Harsh Singhal,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Federal prosecutors allege that Ross and Rhodes concealed their fraud scheme by submitting false documents to CHA, including proposals, scopes of work and invoices.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2026
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In the fall the realms of American football and basketball meet as the Colts and the Pacers respectively kick off and tip off their seasons.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
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Her Taurus moon also occupies her 12th house, an area of the birth chart associated with spirituality, secrecy and subconscious realms.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
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Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
1 June 2026
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Throughout its history the company has gone through the ebbs and flows of the jewelry sector, impacted to various extents by wars, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical disruption.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
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Cooking settings and temperature ranges Toaster ovens frequently come with more than just a toasting setting, usually including a broil, bake and warming option.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
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The aircraft can also travel at speeds of up to 25 meters per second, extending surveillance beyond traditional engagement ranges.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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Even the Mini House's dimensions appear inspired by the Markies project.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 June 2026
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According to the home’s actual dimensions, the doorway (which didn’t exist when the family moved in) should dead-end to an external wall; instead, when Navidson opens the door, there’s a narrow hallway nearly ten feet long inside.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
12 June 2026
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Their clean collisions would allow more precise measurements of scattering amplitudes, making the FCC ultrasensitive to indirect signs of new physics.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Jan. 2026
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Second, the large amplitudes of the gravitational waves needed to generate the events that Weber was claiming a detection of would provide more energy than could possibly cosmically exist in any-and-all forms of radiation combined; the Universe as a whole ruled his interpretation out.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Widths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widths. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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